Rich vs poor in Regency Britain
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🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:47.1 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. |
| 1:01.1 | I'm Ellie Corthorne. In today's episode, you'll be hearing from the historian Ian Mortimer. |
| 1:07.2 | He's the author of a series of time traveller's guides that take readers into the streets, smells and experiences of different eras. And his latest is a guide to Regency Britain. |
| 1:14.4 | Though popular depictions of the era often focus on the middle and upper class worlds, |
| 1:19.6 | such as those depicted by Jane Austen, |
| 1:21.9 | but the chasm between rich and poor at this time was hugely significant and can't be ignored. |
| 1:29.2 | Putting the questions to Ian was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans. So your time traveller's guide to Regency Britain |
| 1:36.6 | tells readers everything they need to know about many elements of the Georgian era, such as criminals, |
| 1:42.4 | disease, beggars, hardship and inequality, for example. |
| 1:45.4 | But perhaps that isn't the first thing we think about when we think about this era. |
| 1:49.2 | Perhaps thanks to Austin, thanks to Regency Architecture and so on. |
| 1:52.8 | Can you introduce listeners to your book and to your approach to the era? |
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